One of the most valuable experiments I ever ran was intentionally practicing the skill of making close friends, and this directly led to most of my friends today. This post is the story of that experiment, and distills the lessons learned

Then the sands came.

A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life

Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.

With 41 complications and having taken eight years to craft, the Solaria is the perfect way for Vacheron to celebrate 270 years.

Why clear communication—not clever prompts—is your real AI superpower

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Review of guidelines for using in-game currencies in the European Union.

On April 9, 2025, someone risked $2.5 million on SPY call options—and walked away with $70+ million in under an hour. The trade was placed at 1:01 pm. At 1:30 pm, Trump announced tariff pauses. The market exploded upward. These options that cost 85 cents…

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point

My role at Google was eliminated.

The app for independent voices

For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.

While developers of AI models have generally refrained from opening up access beyond their data centers, Google's announcement suggests that may be changing.

The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.

In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.

Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

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